Sunday, December 04, 2011

I was going to prepare an epitaph for Herman Cain's political tombstone tonight, but the more I tried to think of something to write, the more I came up with blanks. I never considered Herman Cain a serious candidate from the start, so it was difficult to formulate a serious argument about him.

Herman Cain never had a snowball's chance in Satan's home of winning the presidency of these divided states of A-merry-ca, and I suspect that he had to know that. If that's the case; the joke may be be on all of us. Like Sarah from Alaska, this was all a money making scheme for Herman from the start. Book deals, higher speaking engagement fees, and a television show on the news network for dummies is sure to come. And Herman will be smiling all the way to the bank. Hopefully he will be visit Jared and take care of the Mrs. after all the crap she put up with for him over these past few months.

There are some folks who saw Herman's run as some sort of republican conspiracy, and, who knows, they might be right. I wouldn't put anything past those people. This is NewsOne.com's West Coast Editor's take on the Herman Cain affair:

"Regardless of how you might have felt about Sharon Bialek or Karen Kraushaar, by the time Ginger White emerged, it was a wrap. Rather than face the firing squad alone, he walked out dragging his wife before the cameras. It was so sad. It was painful to watch.

The meteoric and mysterious rise of this largely unknown Black Republican was over. Herman Cain’s campaign went down harder than a groupie at a Lil Wayne concert. That the Republican Party would have any Black answer to the charismatic Barack Obama seemed so unlikely. But there he was. He was funny, relaxed in front of the cameras and clearly passionate. He was no dummy, did not come from a lot of money but made a lot of money selling pizza. He was everything your average Republican wanted to see in a Black candidate — almost. We all know when it comes to the Oval Office, almost is never good enough. It was a character assassination, no doubt.

But who was the triggerman? Meet Mark Block, Herman Cain’s campaign manager. This man is impressive. Mr. Block was the first 18-year-old ever elected to office in Wisconsin in 1974. In 1997 he was banned from politics in Wisconsin for three years and paid a $15,000 fine after being accused of violating election laws when he served as campaign manager for state Supreme Court Justice Jon P. Wilcox. Mark Block is powerful indeed. Yet he’s not powerful enough to get Cain on the national stage by himself.

In October of this year, an Associated Press story on Herman Cain explained some of the power behind the power “Cain’s campaign manager and a number of aides have worked for Americans for Prosperity, or AFP, the advocacy group founded with support from billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, which lobbies for lower taxes and less government regulation and spending.”If you don’t know the Koch brothers, that’s OK. For those that don’t know, they run a company called Koch Industries. Wikipedia says Koch Industries is a conglomerate that is the second-largest privately held company in the U.S. David Koch is recognized as a philanthropist. His personal worth was recently clocked around $22.5 billion. Cain was backed by hardcore conservative one percenters. Why would they want a Black man to run the free world?

With the backing of the Koch family, it looked like the game was locked for Cain. But someone, somewhere knew Cain had a weakness for women. They had to. How was it before his campaign got underway nobody said “Hey look, if we’re gonna do this we need to know if you have any side chicks, spring break video tapes, baby mommas- anything?” Somebody had to have done some homework.When the story first broke, Cain blamed Perry:

“Mr. Cain, in an article published by Forbes on Wednesday afternoon, accused Curt Anderson — an aide with Mr. Cain’s 2004 Senate campaign in Georgia and now an adviser to Mr. Perry — of being the source. Mr. Cain recalled telling Mr. Anderson about the harassment charges in 2003.

“It was a typical campaign conversation,” Mr. Cain told Forbes. “I told him that there was only one case, one set of charges, one woman while I was at the National Restaurant Association. Those charges were baseless, but I thought he needed to know about them. I don’t recall anyone else being in the room when I told him.”

Perry denied the charges and promoted the idea that it was possibly Romney who pulled the trigger. But it really doesn’t matter now.

The question is why? The answer is simple. The Republican Party never wanted a Black man to lead, but they wanted to look like they did. After the RNC Chariman Michael Steele (a right wing token if we ever saw one) was bullied by Rush Limbaugh and cast aside like a rusty spittoon, there was no Black Republican leader to represent the right. Most of the candidates Black America knew from the right were either seen as Toms (like Steele) or just had no juice on the block. They needed a new guy. A charismatic guy. A Black guy who looked like he could win, but couldn’t. Herman Cain was that Black guy.

Ultimately, Herman Cain assassinated himself. Shot himself in the heart and took his wife with him. His infidelity is his to own and his to work out between his God and wife. He knew what was in his past. Only his ego, or the false support of those in on the hit, would make him believe he could get past the vetting of so many in such crucial times. As of now, there is no fingerprints, no weapon, no get away vehicle. Suspects? There are many. We have Mark Block, the Koch Brothers to Perry, Anderson, its a long list." [Source]

I will leave the conspiracy theories to other folks. Me, I am just glad that I don't have to watch another day of this Herman Cain soap opera: All My White Women.

87 comments:

If it were Obama, surely they would have waited for the general election.

It could be as field describes; it does seem odd that the Koch-Cain faction would miss this in a background check. But would they pillory their own candidate without another in the stable? If so, who are they backing now? And does taking their Black candidate down in this way really leave the public believing Republicans would Support a Black candidate? It has hatchet job written all over it, even if it wasn't a hard one to pull off.

Field-- you came up with a rather decent epitaph for Herman Cain. I'd had hoped, however, that it would take more than a visit to Jared to win back Mrs. Cain's unbelievable devotion shown at his press conference. What is it with these dutiful women who stand by their cheating and unprincipled husbands? She clapped and smiled when he made his last appeal before they closed the coffin on his doomed candidacy.

I guess denial is one of the strongest and most overused defense mechanisms by human beings.

I surmise that the palatial home that they've shared for a number of years will continue to house two separate households. For this woman did not know the man she was married to and from outward appearances will continue to be in that delusional state titled matrimony.

Well...moving on to Newt Gingrich and I'm sure you'll have an arsenal of ammunition for future posts on this guy! Whew.....

Field, your respect for HC is non-existent and I resent your attitude. How could you? Have you no shame?

There never was any proof that Herman slept with any of those women, esp Ginger White. I mean, that name sounds like a porn star name. Herman would never sleep with a porn star.

There can be only one person behind this tragic loss for America: Obama! He was running scared because if Herman had won, Herman would have trounced Obama in debates and I think EVERYBODY knew it from Dems to Repubs to Independents. Of course, the Dems couldn't allow that.

Sounds like Black guilt for bringing down a brother by playing the uncle tom race card, now they try and blame someone else. Sorry, I remember you did it, you are guilty, you are the one who attacked him because of his race and beliefs no one else.

LOL! Ginger was the only black one, but she looked white. At first, she was trying to be protective of him, but when he called her "troubled" she changed up.

"Cain isn't going down for being an uncle Tom. He's going down because he couldn't keep it in his pants."

Amen, preach it!

"I'm with Mansfield Fraiser; the pitiful fool can't even mackdaddy worth a shit."

Me thinks that too!

"I surmise that the palatial home that they've shared for a number of years will continue to house two separate households. For this woman did not know the man she was married to and from outward appearances will continue to be in that delusional state titled matrimony."

I was thinking that same thing. It must be the money or gold down there to her.

I never considered Herman Cain a serious candidate from the start, so it was difficult to formulate a serious argument about him.

Then why bother with the post?

Herman Cain never had a snowball's chance....Like Sarah from Alaska, this was all a money making scheme for Herman from the start. Book deals, higher speaking engagement fees, and a television show on the news network for dummies is sure to come. And Herman will be smiling all the way to the bank.

For Money? For opporutnity? Cain stands to make NOTHING and lose PLENTY. Your judgment is truly pathetic.

With the backing of the Koch family, it looked like the game was locked for Cain.

The Koch brothers? A lock? You think a candidate supported by the Koch brothers is a sure bet? Wow. You really know nothing.

Field, Lets be honest. This won't be the first time cuffs will be placed on him.

He will commit his feony by his 18th birthday.By the time he is 30 he will be on a 15 to life sentence.

Field replied, "Spoken like a true wingnut, always expect the worse from the black child. And folks wonder why they can't get black folks to vote for them."

Come on, Field. You know what the stats say. It shouldn't take a wingnut to quote them to you. By now, you know the truth. The problem is you don't want to acknowledge the truth. Or maybe you can't handle the truth?

9:30 PM------------------------------You nailed him. The statistics are plain as day.

Troubled by allegations of sexual and financial misdeeds, Bishop Eddie L. Long said he would stop preaching for a time at his church near Atlanta. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/us/eddie-long-beleaguered-church-leader-to-stop-preaching.html`

"Troubled by allegations of sexual and financial misdeeds, Bishop Eddie L. Long said he would stop preaching for a time at his church near Atlanta. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/us/eddie-long-beleaguered-church-leader-to-stop-preaching.html"

Lord have mercy. What am I to do on Sundays? What are his followers to do? This feels like a spiritual death approaching for so many Negroes who need Eddie Long preaching on Sundays.

Eddie Long is innocent and now they want to accuse him of stealing money? There is no way a minister of God would do that.

Shame. And to think he was gonna make the big bucks just like Sarah Palin.

Herm didn't realize he wasn't supposed to be on stage any longer than his 15 minutes allowed. And now he's paying for it dearly. A clear lesson to Newt about how not to overstay your welcome unless you want the rug pulled out from under you.

Rob L said... Cain isn't going down for being an uncle Tom. He's going down because he couldn't keep it in his pants.

"Oh right The first two allegations, made 15 years ago when Cain was at the NRA, were both non-starters. They were both investigated, at the time, and both found to be false. Cain himself was unaware of one, and had recused himself from handling the other. For the third allegation, the attorney for Sharon Bialek was Gloria Allred, which gives her accusations all the credibility of an alien autopsy video from 1947, lacking negatives, and filmed in HD. The latest accuser, Ginger White, is another non-starter, as there seems to be an important aspect missing from her so-called affair: the sex. Everything White has accused Cain of seems very platonic, like being invited to Cain's hotel room to... plan a future meeting. Even worse, 13 years of voice mails and text messages, and there is still no evidence of what most people would call an affair. It makes Ms. White seem a little yandere"

Rob L said... If it were Obama, surely they would have waited for the general election.

Actually Rib, the media would just have ignored it as they do with normal lefty arsonists

"did you know that Barack Obama was accused of some shocking behavior? Larry Sinclair, a man, told a story about how in 1999, he shared a limo with Obama, they did some lines of cocaine together, and then Larry orally gratified Obama. Larry outed Obama on YouTube, because no news outlet showed interest in his story. Instead of spending every waking moment hounding Obama about this accuser, the news media did everything they could to forget that Larry Sinclair ever existed. The ones who could not forget about Sinclair, did everything they could to discredit him. Pretty much the same thing that was done to all of the accusers of Bill Clinton.

It's interesting that all the women Herman Cain harassed and/or sexed were white or white LOOKING. This is yet more proof (as if any more was needed) that black women, unless they look white like Ginger White (oh the irony of ironies), need to MOVE ON from black men.

Shit Anonymous 7:45 AM, she stated on nationwide television that they fucked; what do you need, pictures?

Right and Larry Sinclair said he blew Obama, while he was snortin coke. Allright at least we agree the evidence needed is what someone simply says, Obama is a junkie gay man cheating on the mooch with his hairy fairy pals.

One time we were having sex, and I was looking up at the ceiling, thinking about, ‘What am I going to buy at the grocery store tomorrow?

In between marriages, however, she turned to Cain for support, and he began giving her money early in their relationship, she said. “I didn’t ask, but he did understand my situation: I was getting divorced, and I had two small kids. He would send me extra cash and things like that,” she said. “When he first started, it was pretty sporadic, but the last 2 1/2 years, there was consistent financial help every month. It was ‘Here’s something to help with this; here’s something to help with that.’ I was appreciative of that. I said thank you, every time. But I think every time he had sex with me, he was getting a lot more than I was getting.”

Although Cain has been married for 43 years, the subject of his wife almost never came up, said White, who has never met Gloria Cain. “I knew he was married; he had his wedding band on,” she said. “But not until maybe our fourth trip did he even admit he had kids or mention his wife. That’s why I’ve been able to not think about it all these years. This wasn’t a person I heard him talk to on the phone; no ‘Hey, excuse me, I have to take a call from my wife.’ For a long time, she was a person who didn’t really exist, even though I knew she did. It was almost like she was a ghost wife.”

Last week, when MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell asked White about Gloria Cain, White apologized on the air for her affair with Herman Cain. But in general, White sees such wives as engaging in willful self-denial, she said. “I think certain women see what they want to see, hear what they want to hear,” she said on Saturday night. “I would be surprised if some of these wives are surprised to know what their husbands were doing. Women have intuition. I think a lot of women are comfortable, and they don’t want to realize if they’re being cheated on. I don’t think a lot of women want to face up to that.”

Buckley said he agreed. “Men are not judged nearly as harshly as women are; there’s the proverbial double standard,” he said. “There’s a lot of forgiveness for men, and there’s not a lot for women. For every man who’s been Teflonized and is able to brush this stuff off or bury it, there’s a woman who’s getting buried or getting flicked off of somebody’s suit like yesterday’s mud that’s dried in place. I think that the playing field needs to be a lot more level.”

Between Cain and White, the playing field apparently was never level, and White said she was realistic about her alleged status as his mistress. “I didn’t know, but I felt that I definitely was not the only one,” she said. “Honestly, I didn’t care about it. I didn’t think about it.”

Hence absolutely no such thing. Hence you are desperately failing around looking to prove your intellectual superiority, and hence proving absolutely the opposite.

Hence no change there then.

What is this the George Orwell show? Now we have Henny Penny the Weasel showing up as a Purple Cow talking doublespeak. Just because you think everyone feels you are an intellectual fraud and a complete asshole doesn't mean that they do not.

start hereMachiavelli 101: Give a dog a bad name before you kill him! The examples of this policy are plentiful. Saddam Hussein, Muammar Quaddafi, Bashar El Assad, Mahmoud Ahmedenijad, and the list could go on and on.

Some of these dogs have already being killed, while others await the same destiny. Ironically, like the late Saddam Hussein, and Qaddafi of Libya, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has committed the same deadly mistake when has ordered in 2009 the replacement of the US dollar by the euro in calculating the value of the country’s Oil Stabilisation Fund (OSF). [5].

The United States’ refusal to dialogue with Iran, the failures of the color revolution, austere sanctions, and covert operations in that country that were financed by the Bush administration as congress agreed in June 2009 to fund a major escalation of these covert missions [7], have left nothing on the table except for “war,” in order to complete the Oded Yinon vision/plan for the new Middle East. (Oded Yinon is a former official in the Israeli ministry of Foreign affairs who concluded in his memo in February 1982 that Israel long term priority is thus to encourage all the factors of disintegration in the Arab States, with dismantlment leading to creation of ethnically or religiously homogeneous provinces. Sure enough, the plans of the past are continuing to unravel in the present).

On October 28, 2011, the Washington post newspaper, a CIA-mouth piece reported that U.S. officials accused elements of the Iranian government of plotting to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington , allegations that aggravated the tense relationship between the United States and the Islamic Republic. The Justice Department unsealed charges against two Iranians — one of them a U.S. citizen — accusing them of orchestrating an elaborate murder-for-hire plot that targeted Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi envoy to Washington and a key adviser to King Abdullah. The Iranians planned to employ Mexican drug traffickers to kill Jubeir with a bomb as he ate at a restaurant, U.S. officials said. [6].

Not content to act the part of the planet’s self-appointed executioner, Obama is taking actions and making statements which give the impression that he intends to take military action against Iran. Dick Cheney must be very jealous. Last week the administration claimed that yet another terror plot was being fomented on American soil before it was foiled in the nick of time by the FBI.

Of course, it was just another example of a plan which would not have existed had it not been instigated by an informant. The FBI continues in its sorry history of concocting crimes, all of them outrageous, but this has broader and more horrible implications.

By claiming that a foreign government was involved in contracting with Mexican drug dealers to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington, the administration has made a clear case for war against the Iranian government. The calls for more inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities and for even tighter sanctions are just the beginning. Lest we forget, the occupation of Iraq was preceded by a year long campaign for political and public support.

As far as the US Ambassador to Belgium's remarks, I totally agree with them.

"According to the prepared remarks of his speech, Gutman distinguished between “anti-Semitism, of hatred and violence against Jews, from a small sector of the population who hate others who may be different or perceived to be different, largely for the sake of hating” from what he perceived to be a different phenomenon tied to Israeli policies."

uptownsteve said... "What do you think should be done? What should Obama do? He already has proven his is very anti Israel time and time again including his support of the Belgium Amb. anti jewish remarks."

You fuckin phony. Answering a question with a question.

No dumbass a phony is someone who tries to force a position from someone else without saying what he thinks, giving himself room to waffle, like you ya phony dimwitted democrat.

If Iran moves against Israel then the US will have no choice politically but to move militarily against Iran.

Politically? Sure it isn't necessary for the survival of a true ally?

You KNOW that. If Obama doesn't move against Iran, Trump and the Rethugs would be the first ones calling him a pussy and "anti-Israel".

So he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

No he is just damned because he doesn't do anything except campaign and play class warfare, if there is anything to be done you can bet boy obama will be hiding and making others push the decisions and than either taking credit or pointing the finger

Now answer the question.

What do YOU think he should do if Iran moves against Israel?

Make Iran a parking lot or a fused glass palace. If they follow through on threats to kill Israelis and wipe them off the face of the planet - it is better to give than receive in this time of holiday cheer and we should give it to them real good as they are planning to do to Israel.

Herm didn't realize he wasn't supposed to be on stage any longer than his 15 minutes allowed. And now he's paying for it dearly. A clear lesson to Newt about how not to overstay your welcome unless you want the rug pulled out from under you.---------------------------------------------Yeah, knute the grinch is trying his best to keep his inner douchbag in check, but he's been so convinced of his own greatness for so long that he can't visibly contain his self-regard or avoid his shoot-from the-hip pseudo-intellectualizing. He's pretty much hurmincaine with a political resume. He's defying gravity on anti-mitt inertia now, but he can, and probably will, crash and burn at any point.

PS, on Iran. Isn't it Israel with it's hundreds of weaponized warheads -including a submarine based second strike capability, that's been threatening Iran with war while Iran, (who US intelligence denies is weaponizing it's nuclear material btw) only threatens to respond if actually attacked?

If Iran attacks Israel, Israel will counterstrike. If Iran attacks with Weapons of Mass Destruction, Israel will respond with the power to wipe out the threat.

Mu-slimes have a long history of lying about their military power when they threaten other nations.

Their true strength is always a small fraction of what they claim in their idiotic bluster.

Mother of All Wars. Yeah. Saddam, he's a real kidder. One brutal beat-down wasn't enough. He was such a masochist he went for round two and saw the destruction of everything he had, including his stooge sons. What a guy.

Khadaffy? Yeah. Cut from the same persian rug. You can see how terribly those clowns are missed.

So if Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Khameini launch an attack on Israel, they're going to see missiles, bombs and gunfire coming straight at them. Won't be pretty.

But because Obama is still a mu-slime at heart, he's likely to step back from a fight between Israel and Iran, unless the fight involves nuclear weapons, which would get India, Pakistan, China, Russia and Egypt into the act.

PS, on Iran. Isn't it Israel with it's hundreds of weaponized warheads -including a submarine based second strike capability, that's been threatening Iran with war while Iran...

Try to recall the fact that every mu-slime nation has called for the destruction of Israel and Ahmadinejad has repeatedly threatened Israel with annihilation.

Meanwhile, Israel wiped out Iraq'a nuclear facility in Osirik about 20 years ago, when Saddam got some big ideas about making bombs. He quickly gave up that plan.

Iran is looking at the same treatment. But frankly, the world would benefit far more if Israel wiped out the Iranian government, which would give the hapless Iranians the chance to try a little democracy.

Field, "And Val, I have to agree with you; that line you quoted was troubling. NewsOne.com is a main stream publication, they should be careful with that type of writing. An editor should have known better."

In a twisted sense equality is trying to get into the doors of many novel and new venues for Black folks in America..

For centuries Black folks have had lousy white candidates to select for public office to now observe CAIN as just another lousy candidate is liberating and a positive development for race relations in America now even margainal and incompetent Black folks can have their 15 minutes ....Bravo to that!

"The only independent bookstore in the Bronx, New York, Books in the Hood, will close this month.

The Bronx is the northernmost of New York City's five boroughs, and according to the 2008 census, has a population of 1,391,903. (New York Daily News)

More proof that blacks don't read."

Now you see, even you know that this is complete bollocks.

Book shops are closing down all over the western world, because people are buying online or have switched to eBooks. This is a fact known to everyone with an I.Q. greater than that of a chicken. So even you.

"weaponized," my anon racist stomer, denotes a a warhead with all components installed and ready to arm. Several countries notably Japan, South Korea, Brazil and South Africa are believed or known to have developed all of the components but never assembled them fully into weapons. This creates a type of :strategic ambiguity" similar to Israel's "official" public stance.

Pakistan told the Reagan and Bush admins in the '80s that it was engaging in such an exercise to counter the Indian bomb. Then we got a picture of the actual weaponized warhead under Clinton and embargoed all duel use and military sales until the supposed anti-Taliban alliance of '02 under W.

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